Stress-related illness

Stress-related illness may worsen or increase the risk of conditions like obesity, diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer's disease, depression and anxiety, gastrointestinal problems, asthma, accelerated ageing and even premature death. Stress is a built-in physiologic response to a threat. When you feel stressed, your body responds and your blood vessels constrict. And then your blood pressure and pulse rise that making you breathe faster. Finally, your bloodstream is flooded with hormones such as cortisol and adrenaline.

Obesity with excess fat in the belly may pose greater health risks than fat on the legs or hips, but the truth is that's where people with high stress seem to store it. Stress causes higher levels of the hormone cortisol and that may increase the amount of fat that's deposited in the abdomen. Stress can worsen diabetes in two ways by increasing the likelihood of bad behaviours such as unhealthy eating and excessive drinking, and by raising the glucose levels of people with type 2 diabetes directly. Also, stress can directly increase heart rate and blood flow and cause the release of cholesterol and triglycerides into the bloodstream.

壓力相關疾病

與壓力相關的疾病可能會惡化或增加肥胖、糖尿病、心臟病、阿爾茨海默病、抑鬱和焦慮、胃腸道問題、哮喘、加速衰老甚至過早死亡等疾病的風險。壓力是對威脅的內在生理反應。當你感到壓力時，你的身體會做出反應，你的血管會收縮。然後你的血壓和脈搏會上升，讓你呼吸更快。最後，你的血液中充滿了皮質醇和腎上腺素等激素。

腹部脂肪過多的肥胖可能比腿部或臀部的脂肪對健康造成更大的風險，但事實是壓力大的人似乎將脂肪儲存在這些地方。壓力會導致激素皮質醇水平升高，這可能會增加沉積在腹部的脂肪量。壓力可以通過兩種方式使糖尿病惡化，一種是增加不良行為（如不健康飲食和過度飲酒）的可能性，另一種是直接提高2型糖尿病患者的血糖水平。此外，壓力會直接增加心率和血流量，並導致膽固醇和甘油三酯釋放到血液中。